PM Challenges Opposition on Port Project

PRIME MINISTER, Dr Ralph Gonsalves, has advised Opposition Leader, Dr Godwin Friday, to write to the minister responsible for the port, so that he and his team members can visit the ongoing Port Modernisation Project in Rose Place, Kingstown. The project, the second largest undertaken by the government, seeks to modernise and improve infrastructure to the port services in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG).

While contributing to debate on the Supplementary Estimates in Parliament last Thursday, August, 7, 2025, Dr Friday made known that his party wishes to visit the project.

During his own contribution to the debate, Dr Gonsalves responded to Dr Friday’s request, telling him he needs to write to the minister.

The Prime Minister, however, expressed the feeling that the opposition members do not really want to visit the project.

Senator Benarva Browne, Minister of Urban Development, is the minister with responsibility for the port.

The Prime Minister pointed out that he takes his views on the port from persons involved in the oversight of the project.

“I don’t take the views of a structural engineer, who hasn’t addressed the matter,” he said.

In the supplementary estimates which were debated and passed last week, the government has earmarked EC$25.6 million for the continuation of work on the Port Modernization Project.

The project, originally targetted for completion by the first half of this year, has being delayed by five months, and is now scheduled to be completed at the end of October, 2025.

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